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DavidDvorkin

(20,708 posts)
Thu Jun 4, 2026, 04:40 PM 4 hrs ago

Trump's humiliation of Netanyahu marks a sea change in the US-Israel relationship

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s carefully cultivated image as a master of geopolitics is on life support after reports that President Donald Trump on Monday cursed and mocked him in a phone call, calling him “f- – – ing crazy” and ordering him to stand down in Lebanon.

In response, Netanyahu’s opponents and even some of his former allies are accusing him of mortgaging Israel’s sovereignty and reducing the country to strategic dependence on Washington. They’re right. Trump is treating Netanyahu less like the leader of a sovereign ally and more like a subordinate expected to obey instructions.

As a result, Israel suddenly looks less like an independent regional power and more like an American client state.


https://forward.com/opinion/829331/trump-netanyahu-hezbollah-iran/
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Trump's humiliation of Netanyahu marks a sea change in the US-Israel relationship (Original Post) DavidDvorkin 4 hrs ago OP
Israel has been an American client for quite a while now. comradebillyboy 2 hrs ago #1
We'll see how that goes. Trump is day to day. cachukis 1 hr ago #2
Trump is the one who is humiliated Mysterian 1 hr ago #3
And yet, Israel controls the US government DavidDvorkin 1 hr ago #4
cough Fetterman cough durablend 1 hr ago #6
That doesn't translate into Israel controlling the US government. DavidDvorkin 1 hr ago #7
tOrange Fuckstick and Netenyahoo.... democratsruletheday 1 hr ago #5
trump was stupid to listen to Bibi and attack Iran LetMyPeopleVote 1 hr ago #8
Netanyahu's troops are getting lit up by drones in Lebanon...his only plan is to Gazafy Beirut Prairie Gates 1 hr ago #9

comradebillyboy

(10,970 posts)
1. Israel has been an American client for quite a while now.
Thu Jun 4, 2026, 06:16 PM
2 hrs ago

Not a good client, but a client none the less. But Bibi has worked hard to alienate the American public whose support the state of Israel desperately needs.

Mysterian

(6,679 posts)
3. Trump is the one who is humiliated
Thu Jun 4, 2026, 07:06 PM
1 hr ago

Netanyahu will continue to play Trump like a fiddle and was not humiliated at all by Lil Donnie's temper tantrum.

DavidDvorkin

(20,708 posts)
4. And yet, Israel controls the US government
Thu Jun 4, 2026, 07:09 PM
1 hr ago

At least, according to what I've read in various places, including here on DU.

No, I'm not going to bother going through DU posts to find examples. I've seen that stated here.

LetMyPeopleVote

(182,944 posts)
8. trump was stupid to listen to Bibi and attack Iran
Thu Jun 4, 2026, 07:52 PM
1 hr ago

Bibi has been trying for decades to get the US to attack Iran and trump was the only idiot stupid enough to listen to Bibi

Prairie Gates

(8,536 posts)
9. Netanyahu's troops are getting lit up by drones in Lebanon...his only plan is to Gazafy Beirut
Thu Jun 4, 2026, 07:59 PM
1 hr ago

which nobody will accept, so he's stuck.

One thing Trump can do is read social media comments and feel. It's trending 95%+ against Netanyahu.

As it once said in a book, "nothing's so embarrassing as when things go wrong in a war."

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